One of the many problems the Left has with the Elon Musk buyout of Twitter is its ability to control messaging on the Climate. Warming equals cooling, more snow, no snow, rain-drought, rising seas no one sees. It’s a lot of hard work.

The ideological filters pre-Musk allowed them to determine who was having influence and how best to limit that influence using Algore-rhythms, flags, tags, censorship, or even ex-communication.

If America had a social credit system Twitter would have been at the forefront of allocating smiley or frowny faces based on content, especially on the approved narratives for Climate Marxism. With that in danger, Twitter will likely become a national security threat.

Until then, last week was not a great week for the Climate Marxists (or Twitter) and Tony Heller from Real Climate Science has a roundup.

(source link, here).

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I am disappointed that GlaxoSmithKline is spending customer money to buy advertising on The ReidOut with Joy Reid on MSNBC.

The ReidOut host, sit in hosts and some contributors practice anti-white labeling that is offensive, racist, and likely inspires hate among some viewers of this show.

I am certain that your company would not support with its advertising dollars a white talk show host or white contributors making such false and offensive statements about black people.

Will GlaxoSmithKline continue to advertise on The ReidOut given its racist content?

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Tennessee passed a law in March that requires students to participate in school sports based on sex, not gender identity. SB1861 creates a disincentive for schools to ignore that requirement.

SB 1861, which Gov. Lee signed Friday, mandates that the Tennessee education commissioner withhold “a portion of the state education finance funds” from school districts that do not determine a student athlete’s sex. The law doesn’t state the exact amount of funding that should be withheld from noncompliant districts.

Laws are funny things, and not just in Tennessee. For example, in New Hampshire, ignoring, subverting, or simply dragging out the right-to-know process is something municipalities love to do. Nashua, for example, is a leader in that sort of nonsense.

If it is a public record, and they don’t want you to have it despite the law, they are prepared to make you take them to court to get it. It deters many who can’t afford the legal costs and cannot represent themselves. The city gets to keep public documents secret and encourages them to keep hiding things.

In other words, absent a penalty or some punishment, politicians or bureaucrats can treat the law as if it does not exist.

Tennessee has read the stitches and is trying to get ahead of the fastball.

At least 14 other states have enacted laws in recent years to restrict male participation in female athletics, as gender-confused men increasingly dominate women’s sports at the high school, college, and professional levels.

It’s almost as if something triggered them all to save women’s sports. Now we need these other states to amp up their enforcement and disincentives and be joined by more states following their lead.

Is your state considering legislation to protect girls and women? Let us know in the comments.

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In a new book titled “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” readers learn that the behind-the-scenes process for selecting Joe Biden’s vice-presidential candidate was fraught with disagreements, particularly over the selection of his eventual running mate.

To be fair, it’s not as if this is a huge surprise at this point. Anyone with a functioning brain can see that neither Joe nor Kamala have much use for the other. Joe sent her on a fool’s errand to clean up the border last summer – a border he has no interest in securing. What exactly was she supposed to do?

Then there were the cringe videos of the Obama visit a few weeks ago, and Kamala was so thoroughly implanted in the former president’s orbit that she couldn’t even be bothered to let her supposed boss in. Remember this?

This is the saddest, most pathetic thing pic.twitter.com/LZ78iWAFHu

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 5, 2022

As for the book itself, the two authors, both of the leftist New York Times – raising separate questions of the timing of this book’s release – captured quotes from the doctoral First Lady that clearly paint the relationship in a negative light. Fox News had early access to the soon-to-be-released book. They note:

“’There are millions of people in the United States,’ she began. ‘Why,’ she asked, ‘do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe,’” the authors wrote of a conversation Jill Biden had after she learned Harris became a leading candidate to serve as Biden’s running mate.”

I don’t agree with the doctor often, but on this topic, she is absolutely correct. Here is part of Jill’s problem with selecting Kamala Harris as veep, taken from one of the DNC debates. She absolutely tears into Senility Joe, capturing thunderous applause by the end of her attack:



“But I also believe – and it’s personal and…it was hurtful – to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States Senators who built their reputations and career [sic] on the segregation of race in this county. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.”

“But Vice President Biden, do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?”

“That’s why we have the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act!”

Despite these reservations, Fox provides more context from the book:

“Several from Biden’s inner circle, however, supported Harris on the ticket. Ron Klain, now the White House chief of staff, had been tasked with vetting vice presidential candidates and, according to the book, told Biden early on that Harris was most qualified for the job as she had sought the presidency herself.

“Yes, Harris had attacked Biden more harshly than any other major candidate in the Democratic primaries. Yes, the Biden family had seen it as a smear and a betrayal. In Klain’s assessment, that would work to Biden’s advantage,” the book states. “Choosing Harris will show people that you are magnanimous and forgiving, Klain told Biden. It will show the country just what a unifying leader you can be.”

Apparently, Joe’s own issues were with the fact that Harris has a well-publicized past in sleeping her way to the top. The book writes about her “past romantic relationship” with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown and Biden is quoted as saying this affair is “the kind of thing that should be off-limits.

Yikes.

Amazingly, here we are with Kamala Harris. It is worth asking the question again: Who is really running the country? Our sitting president didn’t even want his vice president, who failed to get more than 1% of the vote in primaries and dropped out of the race, and he got stuck with her anyway.

Hailey Sanibel writes at The Blue State Conservative

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I’ve said it a few hundred times. Climate Change is an economic term. It is also political, not scientific. The science associated with it is as reliable as the reporting in Pravda or – on most days – the New York Times, Washington Post, or even your local rag or TV news.

Its facts are paid for as long as they align with the political plan, which is to undermine free-market capitalism.

So this fact won’t be popping up anywhere in the corporate media.

So far this year, average nighttime temperatures in the US have been close to a record low, and the number of cold nights has been close to a record high.

Eyeball this, and there are only six, maybe seven years since 1895 when the average nighttime US temperatures were colder. If it were the opposite, we’d never hear the end of it.

The reason for this near-record-setting cold trend is a near-record-setting number of nights when the average US temperature was below twenty degrees.

You have to go back to 1895, when they started keeping records, to find a year with more from Jan-April, than 2022.

It is as newsworthy as might be the opposite, but this is likely the only place you’ll see it other than our source and a few like-minded venues.

You also won’t get any backtracking on previous predictions of continued record-setting warmth (real or not) erased by record-setting cold. It doesn’t support the political or economic agenda of the Climate Cult.

But it has been colder at night and more often across the entire US, and that’s an inconvenient truth they are not against tweaking to make it go away.

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It’s rare to read a story about the recent Croydon budget adjustment that doesn’t mention how small the number of voters was, as if it was some kind of anomaly.

The final vote was 20-14.  For comparison, here are the tallies for votes in recent years, at the town and district meetings, where votes were reported in the minutes:  16-8, 38-5, 20-17, 18-15, 20-12, 22-19.

In towns like Croydon, small voter turnout is the rule, rather than the exception.  Apparently, this is only a problem when the people who show up vote to keep more of their money, instead of letting others vote to take more of it away.

But if low voter participation is the problem, then I’d like to propose a solution, which is to require a town to have 95% voter participation, and 95% approval from participating voters, before any tax money, can be appropriated for any purpose.

In a town like Croydon, with approximately 600 registered voters, at least 570 of them would have to show up to any meeting where taxes are to be appropriated, and at least 542 would have to vote in favor of any appropriation.

Note that this would still require approval from only 90% of the registered voters.  So it’s not really close to the kind of ‘consent’ that is required by the Declaration of Independence to allow a government to act, let alone to violate the right to property that it’s supposed to be protecting.

But it might, as they say, be close enough for government work.

Right now, the people calling for a special district meeting to overturn the original vote don’t feel that they have to compromise, because they think that they’re going to win.  (We see similar attitudes in Concord, and in Washington.)

And that, in a nutshell, is what’s wrong with majorities, and even ‘super-majorities’ like 2/3 or 3/5.  They encourage what we might call an Eric Cartman-like approach to political disputes:  If one side gets slightly more votes than the other, it can do what it wants.

In contrast, imagine that you need to have nearly everyone on board before you can take money or property, or liberty from anyone.  Now you have a situation where you can do only things that have overwhelmingly widespread support. This would require people with different viewpoints, and different priorities, to actually listen to each other, and to collaborate instead of compete. How refreshing would that be?

Ironically, if this were to happen in Croydon, we would end up with a budget that is much smaller than the $800,000 budget passed at the regular town meeting, because the voters of the district would have to actually agree on what the money is supposed to be used for.  This would eliminate most extra-curricular activities and many electives.  It would pare down ‘special education’ until it’s actually special again.  (Currently, 25 percent of Croydon students are coded as having special needs.)

It would disentangle education from other kinds of services, like daycare and job training, and therapy.  And it would focus on subjects (like literacy, and reasoning — rhetorical, logical, scientific, and statistical) that are understood by nearly everyone to provide a public benefit, as opposed to private enrichment.

If this level of approval — and thus this level of collaboration — were required, we would end up with a budget that would reflect Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s conception of perfection — not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

And it would similarly reflect the state supreme court’s rationalization in the Claremont cases for obliging the state to provide ‘each educable child an opportunity to acquire the knowledge and learning necessary to participate intelligently in the American political, economic, and social systems of a free government’.

I say ‘ironically’, because requiring even this watered-down version of consent would make it clear that the people calling for the special meeting do not, in fact, object to small turnouts. What they want is a turnout that is just small enough that they can use majority rule to confiscate property, where consent — approximated by the ‘super-duper majority’ contemplated here — would prohibit that.  Which is to say, they don’t have a problem with small turnouts, just with what they see as the wrong turnouts.

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Will Jones, TCW Defending Freedom:  Covid vaccines raise risk of severe heart inflammation up to 120-fold, says study

COVID vaccination increases the risk of severe heart inflammation up to 120-fold, a major study from Scandinavia published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has found.

The study looked at more than 23million patient records covering the over-12 populations of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden from the start of the vaccine rollout in December 2020 to October 5 2021.

For young males aged 16-24 years within 28 days of a second dose the study found severe myocarditis (requiring inpatient hospital admission) around five times more common after Pfizer and 14 times more common after Moderna. This corresponded to six events per 100,000 people after Pfizer and 18 events per 100,000 after Moderna. A second dose of Moderna given after a first dose of Pfizer came with even higher risk: a 36-fold increased risk, corresponding to 27 events per 100,000 people. The Moderna vaccine has three times the dose of mRNA of the Pfizer vaccine, which the authors suggest lies behind the increased risk.

[...]

The authors conclude the risks ‘should be balanced against the benefits of protecting against severe Covid-19 disease’. However, given the extremely low risk of Covid to healthy young males and the considerably elevated risk of severe myocarditis following vaccination – plus the risks associated with other adverse effects, short and long term – it’s hard to see how it could be worth it, or why these vaccines have not already been withdrawn for younger age groups.

Read the rest here.

Mark Wauck:  Disinformation Governance Board: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

[I]n a global world economy, it becomes increasingly difficult to separate foreign and domestic policy. Thus we see the push to bind the US to foreign treaties and agreements without going through the treaty ratification process as envisioned in the Constitution. Many of those agreements have an effect on domestic policy that should normally be decided by Congress. This is all in line with the aims of the New World Order, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) goal for Global Corporatism/Fascism (cf., for example, Doc Malone: WEF: A Trade Organization on Steroids).

Preeminently, the Senate’s authority over war making has been preempted by the Rules-Based Order, as we see increasingly (Where The War Is At, 4/28/22). US officials, in coordination with foreign powers in the Anglosphere, are openly making public statements that, in any real world understanding, amount to declarations of war against major world powers, such as Russia and China. But war of this sort is something that can’t be done by stealth, as in our GWOT. Thus, the need to shape America’s information environment—to preempt narratives that conflict with the government narrative. Which happens to be the Deep State/Neocon narrative. Thus, the Disinformation Governance Board is an idea whose time has come for America. The public announcement actually specifies “Russia” as a focus for disinforming the American public and the head of the disinformation board checks all the usual Neocon boxes—even “advising” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry—so it all fits in with the war effort of the Rules-Based Order.

Among other accounts, PJMedia’s stands out:

Politico is reporting:

DHS is standing up a new Disinformation Governance Board to coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia. Nina Jankowicz will head the board as executive director. She previously was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship and oversaw Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute. (h/t Daniel Lippman)

Why would a DHS program focus solely on “irregular migration and Russia”? … are these just the most politically dangerous narratives for the Left to lose control over?

Read the rest here.

The New Hampshire State Senate voted 14-10 today to advance a bill already passed by the House prohibiting school boards and other public education agencies from adopting or enforcing mandated face coverings.

HB1131

189:10-a Facial Covering Policy for Schools. The school board of a school district or the chief executive officer of a chartered public school or public academy shall not adopt, enforce, or implement a policy that requires students or members of the public to wear a facial covering for any purpose while on the school’s property unless the facial covering is necessary for a specific extracurricular or instructional purpose, or is required by some other section of the law.

This is the legislation at which, during testimony, Industrial Hygienist Stephen spoke. You can listen to that excellent testimony here.

HB1131 now goes to Governor Sununu for his signature though I’ve not heard where Mr. Sununu stands. He did end mask mandates at the state level and stood firm on not imposing any more of them.

I think he will sign if he’s comfortable with the potential blowback from the Democrats who opposed this bill to the last man, woman, or whatever. (Not a single Democrat voted yea for HB1131, in either the House or the Senate.)

It is worth noting that his position until now has been to let local governments decide how to proceed despite there being no authorizing statute granting them this authority. He has also been fickle on what does or does not interfere with local control.

He’s a big fan of the state zoning board full of developers who can override local zoning rules put in place by local taxpayers. He’s a big supporter of preventing local meddling with the natural right to self-defense. But preventing unnecessary masking of students might be a bridge too far.

I’d recommend a refresher of Stephen Pettys remarks to his staff and himself. He’s an expert with far more training and skill than the average or even above average physician, epidemiologist, or anyone in the state’s employ who is not also an industrial hygenist.

Please listen. It’s not long. There is also a link to the handout he provided.

That goes for taxpayers who should send a polite note to his Excellency encouraging him to sign the HB1131.

[If you’d like to watch and listen, you can jump to that part of the NH State Senate hearing, here.]

And congratulations to the bill’s sponsors, including one of my reps, Melissa Blasek, and everyone who helped get HB1131 this far.

Oh, one final note. The bill doesn’t just take authority from schools and school boards to arbitrarily mask your kids.

II. Any person claiming to be aggrieved by a violation of this section, including the attorney general, may initiate a civil action against a school, school district, school board, or other public education agency in superior court for injunctive and other legal or equitable relief. Any person aggrieved by an act prohibited by this section may also pursue all of the remedies available under RSA 491, RSA 275-E, or any other applicable common law or statutory cause of action.

III. Violation of this section by an educator shall be considered a violation of the educator code of conduct that justifies disciplinary sanction by the state board of education. For the purposes of this section, “educator” means a professional employee of any school whose position requires certification by the state board pursuant to RSA 189:39.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Teeth!

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Here’s a story that should have everyone – regardless of their place on any spectrum – scratching their heads. A major UK university has a class that provides instructions to students on how to assist in males giving birth.

Students studying midwifery at a prominent University in the United Kingdom were taught that biological males can get pregnant and give birth through their penis before instructors hastily edited a workbook they were given.

When some actual experts were consulted, they said,

• “It is not possible for a male person to get pregnant,”
• “A [female] with a gender difference can become pregnant but will not have male genitalia,” she notes, expressing concern that even if instruction was given on serving female-to-male transgender patients, the information was still both incomplete and unrealistic.
• “Most [females] who use testosterone, at the doses used for ‘transition,’ will develop vaginal atrophy.  … , also noting that female-to-male transgender people who wish to naturally deliver are at risk of sustaining “new types of birth injury” that have not yet been studied or investigated.
• “There are no circumstances whereby qualified midwives can possibly be asked, or be expected, to catheterize a penis as part of their professional work,”
• “The writers seem to have left school remarkably ignorant about basic biology, sex and anatomy.”
• “A few [female-to-males] undergo genital surgery but, in general, those with a surgically created neo-penis simply cannot get pregnant either because they undergo a hysterectomy as a prelude,”

To appease the false notion that a woman who says she is a man and wants to have a baby is a man giving birth.

Sorry, that’s a woman pretending to be a man giving birth. And as you can see from the expert commentary, the workbook is a joke, but someone wrote the original workbook. It was (probably) reviewed and edited for the academic community.

Someone in charge at the college or in the department approved it as part of the curriculum. They ordered it, bought it, inventoried it, added it to the course schedule, and gave it to students… before anyone realized what they’d done?

And these are the other sorts of experts the left expects to run our country down to the minutia of our everyday lives.

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The lines at Twitter are humming like never before. Elon Musk bought the whole package and convulsions are shaking progressives top to bottom.

Their practice of censoring, banning, and labeling contributors who refuse to carry the Left’s water being unacceptable is truly just beginning to sink in.

Hollywood celebrities’ are hysterical, employees of Twitter are melting down, oh the drama. The very idea that the left can’t control every narrative, thought or idea is heresy to them.

It’s going to get worse for them I predict.

Co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has suddenly become a free speech advocate. He is saying all the right things along with high praises for the new boss. Jack was so happy he “picked Musk.” That’s what he posted!

More like Elon kicked in the front door – and look at all the lefties scurrying out in search of a new, safe echo chamber.

Pre Musk CEO, Parag Agrawal feels the same way according to Dorsey (stifle snicker here). How long Elon keeps him employed I don’t know but he’s likely on a short rope.

How this all unfolds is yet to be seen but if Elon can reform Twitter into that truly free speech media it could be really huge.

Ann Colter has a great suggestion for Musk, put ads into posts (note! Skip had the idea here first) and in a year Twitter could be funding Tesla instead of Tesla funding Twitter. Good one Ann!

And the American public, after their recent taste of Marxist Socialism, is finding it hard to swallow.

Democrat politicians are abandoning ship in droves choosing not to run, retiring, what have you, knowing the red waves are coming in November and Twitter will now be open to both sides.

Twitter is not the biggest online site but it has more influence than any others. With conservatives able to address all the false crazies, like the Florida Trans science teacher who wants the school to teach that it isn’t only women who produce eggs. (Let that thought sink in for a moment.)

Okay, this trans is surely not talking about preparing breakfast. Honest, I thought leftist crazies had thought of every bizzare thought possible before this.

Musk’s Twitter could become the death blow to progressive leftism or a major factor challenging it? My point is if it can happen to CNN and now Twitter it is just possible the tide is turning?

When conservatives take back congress in November it should move to remove immunity from this political action, phony “news” organizations and allow them to be sued when they maliciously slander citizens like Kyle Rittenhouse and even elected public officials like they did President Trump.

Lots to watch for here and on Twitter but keep the faith and stand strong.

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This is unexpected. A prestigious institution of higher learning – one of many where #woke was crafted and released first upon matriculating morons and later the world, is concerned about the effects that might have on common sense.

No idea should be off-limits at a university. But when an ideology becomes so prevalent that it is nearly impossible to challenge, it becomes a serious problem—and a threat to academic freedom.

Over the last few years, Stanford has been taken over by a collection of theories that view society as consisting only of the oppressors and the oppressed, see words as violent and disagreement as danger, and deny the existence of objective truth. Whether these theories are called anti-racism; social justice; Critical Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; or simply being “on the right side of history;” their effect is the same. They chill free speech, encourage conformity, and demonize disagreement.

…

We hope that by shining a light on the bizarre, performative, and insidious world of “social justice” at Stanford, Woke Watch will draw attention to the havoc these ideologies have wreaked—and bring us closer to solutions.

And they are serious.

It remains to be seen how much pushback they’ll get and the response but wouldn’t it be wonderful if this brave step forward found its way onto every college campus in America?

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Shortly after Elon Musk purchased Twitter for over $40 billion, thousands of leftist users abandoned the soon-to-be free speech haven and announced a plan to join up again on Weibo, the CCP-owned social media company, in the hopes of finding an online environment that censors different opinions.

Several Twitter users posted one final tweet announcing their departure:

“In order to save democracy, we must prevent ideas from being heard!”

“Can’t wait to join Weibo. The Chinese actually know how to run a country on democratic principles!”

“Thanks, Elon. Misinformation is an existential threat to America. I guess I will take my state-sanctioned opinions to communist China!”

“Twitter will be overrun with deadly disinformation. Can you imagine sick people learning about early treatments or sharing opinions on the FBI’s admission that there was no organized coup on, or their involvement in, the January 6th insurrection?” People will DIE!!!”

“If you care about freedom, you should join me on Weibo. Twitter accepts hate speech and promotes violence. The Uygh—–” (This account has been deleted.)

Several prominent black billionaires welcomed Musk, congratulating him on becoming the first African-American to own a major social media company. Robert Johnson, founder of BET, shared how he was glad to be sharing a media presence with another African-American heavyweight. Oprah Winfrey, another media mogul, sent warm wishes and was excited to have him on her show.

However, both Johnson and Winfrey were quickly condemned because they forgot that race doesn’t matter as much as political viewpoints. Musk might be an African-American, but he doesn’t share the same outlook on controlled, legislated speech or even basic ideas of freedom. Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, and Larry Elder followed up with private messages saying you get used to not being seen for your ethnicity despite daily leftist clamoring to see everyone precisely for their ethnicity.

It’s worth noting how this story began. Elon Musk wrote weeks ago about his intention to purchase the Big Tech behemoth and how he saw use of that:

“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy. However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.”

Of course, free speech is code for white supremacy. The concern among those with blue checks and blue hair is that Alex Berenson, Robert Malone, Donald Trump, and other hate-filled, violent extremists might rejoin the same platform that hosts Planned Parenthood, the Taliban, and Iran’s Ayatollah.

Elon Musk promotes free speech, even inviting those who disagree with him. He sent out a tweet Monday morning saying: “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022

It remains to be seen if Musk’s most ardent detractors can safely remain on an optional online app. They will willingly log in everyday and be subjected to all kinds of different opinions and will likely face pushback on their sheltered worldview.

What if they post “glad to have been boosted during my fifteenth time testing positive for Covid” and someone asks if they still believe in the vaccine? What if they post “can you imagine how awful January 6th would have been if not for the bravery of AOC” and someone asks how bad it might have been if the FBI weren’t there?

This is serious.

Hailey Sanibel writes at The Blue State Conservative

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The US Department of Homeland Security has announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board.” Sounds creepy and destined for mission creep but just for the heck of what is their mission?

“[T]o coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia” …

The goal is to bring the resources of the department together to address this threat. I just read a very interesting study that underscores the importance of the point that you make, of the spread of mis and disinformation in minority communities specifically, and we are focused on that …

The Swamp has created a Disinformation Governance Board (See Orwell’s Ministry of Truth) to “counter” mis and disinformation in minority communities.

The director of this board is named Nina Jankowicz who, “In 2016-17, [Jankowicz] advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on disinformation and strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. Prior to her Fulbright grant, she managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute.”

An alleged expert on Russian disinformation is heading a division of Homeland whose job it is to ferret out and correct misinformation among minorities in the United States? For the purpose, I kid you not, of “protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, & civil liberties.”

Governments do not create boards or committees to protect free speech, privacy, or civil rights, and not in the 21st century. Between Truth squads and commissions on discrimination, equity, and inclusion, the Left has increased the number of quotable “insiders” whose mission has been to suppress speech or weaponize the cancel culture.

The new Disinformation Governance Board will inevitably become that but until it does, how worried is the Left that it has created a rapid reaction force to prevent minorities from believing anything but the approved narrative?

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Is the Blue Bubble so small and tightly packed with navel-gazing Progs that this concern seems original to them, absent, say, what Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, and YouTube have been doing for years?

Shadow-banning and physically banning people, not just people on the right but (potentially) anyone or anything that disagrees with or challenges the approved narratives on the left.

MSNBC host trashed for warning Elon Musk could use Twitter to ban political candidates: ‘You absolute clown’https://t.co/pEOUu5qHJf

— Martha MacCallum (@marthamaccallum) April 27, 2022

 “If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don’t have to explain yourself, you don’t even have to be transparent, you could secretly ban one party’s candidate or all of its candidates, all of it nominees.”

So, yes, that could happen, but Musk says he bought Twitter to stop that, which is why MSNBC host Ari Melber is so concerned. Twitter will no longer be able to do that (assuming Musk is true to his word), and people hearing words other than those approved by the machine terrifies them.

But it’s important to understand why it scares them.

They expect that you – being the impressionable idiots that they think you are – will be as easily misled by others as you should be by them. The entire “we’re experts and should run everything” infrastructure is built on the premise. Their public education monopoly exists to ensure it. But there’s no room for loose cannons or Mavericks unless they are like John McCain, a card-carrying member of the insiders club.

And Musk, once a darling of the Green-Energy EVs will-save-the-planet-lie, has defected. He’s gone rogue, which is also only acceptable when that means going right to left. His change amounts to treason: an insurrection of sorts, like the J6 protesters passing through doors held open for them by the capitol police.

But it’s worse than that. The Government made Musk. Billions in Federal loans got Tesla off the ground. He was to be the tip of the Left’ EVs are cool spear. And somewhere along the way, after years of getting raped by California liberals with their taxes and regulations, he discovered the truth.

And now, their monster has robbed them of a meaningful propaganda arm that moves at nearly the speed of light. A tool they’ll be able to continue using but not with impunity.

Every assumption could be challenged, with no one to prevent other views from not just appearing but achieving critical mass.

In other words, the rules would be the sesame for everyone, and they don’t just hate that they fear it.

When forced to defend their ideas, they are reduced to name-calling and misdirection, and with all those witnesses?

That can’t be allowed to stand.

So, they will bring the government to bear on social media the same way Twitter did before Musk.

With extreme prejudice and, as the title suggests, hilarious, in-your-face stupidity.

Watch | Fox News

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